ETYMOLOGY
from tobacco, after bacchanalian
EXAMPLE
“…As we passed on, the number of promenaders increased, but scarcely a lady was now to be seen. Every other gentleman we met was enveloped in a cloud, not of bacchanalian, but tobacconalian incense, which gave a peculiar atmosphere to the Levee…”
From: The South-West
By Joseph Holt Ingraham, 1835
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Thrason-, Thraso Thraso, braggart soldier in the comedy Eunuchus by Terence
EXAMPLE
“…I in times paste haue sene, might be worthely thought, in comparison of this Thrasonicall and glorious ostentation, to haue had muche modesty…”
From: The Letters of the Martyrs
By Miles Coverdale, 1564
ETYMOLOGY
rom Latin tristitia (sadness) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“…What man is it which lives so happily, which feares not something that would sadden his soule if it fell? Nor is there any whom calamity doth so much tristitiate, as that hee never sees the flashes of some warming joy. Beasts with beasts are terrified and delighted…”
From: Resolves or, Excogitations: A Second Centurie
By Owen Felltham, 1628
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tripudiāntem, pres. pple. of tripudiare from tripudium (a beating the ground with the feet, a leaping or dancing, a religious dance)
EXAMPLE
“…All which I mention with a kinde of tripudiant joy, and exultation of spirit, belonging so skilfull a Pilot…”
From: An Exposition vvith Notes, On The whole Fourth Chapter To The Romanes
By W. Sclater, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from trouble (n.) + -y or -ly
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“…Mvsyng vpon the restles bisynesse
Which that this troubly world hath ay on honde,
That othir thyng than fruyt of byttirnesse
Ne yeldeth nought, as I can vndirstonde,
At Chestre ynnë, right fast be the stronde,
As I lay in my bed vp-on a nyght,
Thought me bereft of sleep with force and myght…”
From: De Regimine Principum (The Governance of Kings and Princes)
By Thomas Hoccleve. c1412
ETYMOLOGY
? from Middle English trant (cunning action, trickery)
EXAMPLE
“…About this period died at Hawick two lone sisters, named Marjory and Isobel Hume, designated the Tranties, rather more intelligent than their neighbours in a similar humble condition of life…”
From: Hawick and its Old Memories
By James Wilson, 1858
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“…A shackazin’ owd tallock…”
From: The Folk-Speech of South Cheshire,
By Thomas Darlington, 1889
ETYMOLOGY
for n.1., apparently a reduplication with vowel variation of trim (adj.);
for n. 2., apparently a whimsical application of n.1.
EXAMPLE
“…Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet;
A trym tram for an horse myll it were a nyse thyng;
Deyntes for dammoysels, chaffer far fet:
Bo ho doth bark wel, but Hough ho he rulyth the ring…”
From: Speke Parott
By John Skelton, 1523
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tolūtiloquentia (a talking on a trot, volubility)
EXAMPLE
“…After prolonged study of this pestiferous tolutiloquence I understand and sympathize with the editor’s policy ; nothing useful can or need be done…”
From: The Classical Review
Volume 4, 1954
ETYMOLOGY
from tickle + tongue
EXAMPLE
“…yet notwithstanding he was so crost in the nycke of thys determination, that his hystorie in mitching wyse wandred through sundry hands, and being therwithall in certaine places somewhat tyckle tongued (for M. Campion dyd learne it to speake) and in other places ouer spare, it twitled more tales out of schoole…”
From: Introduction to The firste (laste) volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (Raphael Holinshed, 1577)
– Richard Stanyhurst
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